You know you're "addicted" to tea when ....

…you complain about not being able to find a ceramic teapot you like that’s in stock and your mom tells you your grandma gave you one years ago. And yet, despite knowing there is now one readily available for you in two weeks you still want the other, harder to get one while you’re at it.

When you take up half the shelf you share with your roomie with tea.
When the entire dorm comes to you when they need some pick-me-up tea.
When the sick come to your room in hordes for some tea and honey.
When your parents send tea as a care package.
When what was previously your alcohol budget becomes your tea budget in first year university.

I never re-steep either. My reasoning is the opposite. If I keep re-steeping teas, I’ll never make it through my stash, and my loose leaf tea will become stale and wasted. So I only steep once, so that I get through my stash sooner and keep it fresher.

Rachel Sincere, I hear ya, it makes getting through your stash much more tedious!
Rachel, yes I agree, the second steep is often a totally different tea! plus I feel like I am getting better value even if it means other teas will go stale.
Not to mention there is less caffeine in a second steep

I think the myth is that a 30-sec infusion removes the majority/all of the caffeine, and that’s a good way to decaffeinate your own tea. Based on my understanding of such things (extraction of compounds, etc.), a first infusion should have the most caffeine, and later infusions less (but unless it’s very water-soluble, highly unlikely near zero!) My suspicion is also that since loose leaf teas are whole leaf, the caffeine isn’t as easily removed as with teabags. AKA the more broken the leaf, the faster the caffeine comes out.